Voucher.



No. 705,807. Patented my 20, |902.

. H. wise.

VOUGHEB.

(Application led June 4, 1901.)

(N0 Model.)

@219. 1. 4 (f4/ig. 2.

NE Al. :Xn

SALES nznucfh UNITED STTES i PT'TOFFI HOMER WISE,IOF 4FLUSHING, NEWYORK, ASSIGNOR TO UNION VOUOHER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF YORK.` i

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent N0. l705,807', dated. July29, 1902.

Application iiled June 4, 1901. Serial No. 63,147. @No model.)-

To @ZZ whom, t may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, HOMER WISE,a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Flushing, in the county of Queens and State of New York,haveinventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Vouchers, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to vouchers and its main object is to provide avoucher embodying means for containing the usual bills orstatements,account memoranda, and other papers relating to an account oraccounts to which the voucher corresponds. r

As is well known, the various bills, monthly statements, chargememoranda, rito., relating to a single account, even when the latter isa Small one for which but few papers are required, are usually ofvaryingsizes, both as to the length and as to the width thereof, and theprinting on the bills or other memoranda of account sometimes runsthelong way and sometimes the short wayof the sheet, the result being thatwhen a large number of these papers are assembled they form an irregulargroup thedierent elements of which have generally been formed into aregular group by pasting them on blank sheets of a uniform maximum sizeand afterward pinning or otherwise attaching these separate sheets tothe voucher. This system of keeping the papers of one or more accountstogether is incon- Venient, increases the space occupied by the papers,and involves a great deal of extra labor in bringing all of the papersto a uniform size. My present invention is especially designed andintended to provide a means for overcoming these disadvantages the laborincident to the pasting of the papers thereto.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming part of theapplication, Figure l is a front view of an unfolded voucher embodyingmy present invention.

or envelop portion of the voucher folded nnder the iiap portion thereof.Fig.,3 is a rear View of the voucher shown in Fig. l. Fig. 4

` is afront view of a modified form of voucher embodying my invention.Fig. 5 is a similar view illustrating another modification.

Similar characters Ydesignate like parts in the different figures of thedrawings.

l consider within `the scope of 'my invention any voucher so formed asto constitute a combined voucher and pocket or envelop; but I prefer tomake use of a voucher having a connected iiap and pocket, the iiap beingpreferably at one side and the pocket at the other side -of a fold-line,the usual construction being that in which a iiap and a pocket areconnected along aV substantially central fold-line. K 4' In Figs. l, 2,and 3, V illustrates one form of voucher embodying my invention. Itconsists of an approximately rectangular sheets, constituting thevoucher proper, and a connected portion p at one edge thereofandcombined therewith in such a manner as to form a pocket 5, Vin which allof the various bills, memoranda, dac., relating to the account may bekept. This portion 1J may b e shaped and connected to the sheet o in anydesired man* ner to form the space 5; but I prefer to make a combinedvoucher and pocket from a single sheet of material, usually paper,having side and end tabs or fiaps, such as 6, 7', and 7', folded overaccording to the usual mode of forming an envelop from an envelop-blank.The sheet fu preferably constitutes the Voucher proper and may haveprinted thereon the usual voucher formula or account-classifying headdings, the printing beginning in this case on the front of that part 8 ofthe sheet which forms one side of the pocket and ending on the front ofthe part 9, forming in this case a iiap which can be folded over theback por Fig. 2 isa similar view illustrating the pocket tion of thevoucher along the fold-line 10, which, it will be seen, is in this casethe central longitudinal line of the sheet v. Thus all of the items ofexpense noted on the various papers contained in the pocket 5 andrelating to the account are in plain View on the outside of theenvelop-voucher and can be readily referred to Without removing thepapers themselves from the envelop.

Au important feature of my invention is the provision in connection withthe voucher and its pocket of a receipt covering the account to whichthe papers of the voucher itself relate. This receipt is preferablydisposed at the opposite side of the sheet o from that which carries thevoucher formula and will usually have the fold-line of the voucher atone edge thereof-in this case at the lower side of the receipt. Asuitable form of receipt is shown herein and is indicated b v fr, itbeing in this case printed on one side of the flap f of the combinedvoucher and envelop., Hence my invention is a combined voucher andreceipt having a pocket or envelop the last of which serves to hold allof the papers of the account, the iirst to contain all of the individualitems of the account,

. and the second to preserve as a part of the iinal and permanent recordof the account associated with all the papers relating thereto a receiptin full discharge of the balance due as disclosed by the-voucher and thepapers contained in the pocket 5.

In Fig. 4c I have illustrated a modification of the invention in whichthe iiap of my improved voucher is formed, as shown at f', with cornerssomewhat rounded, and this voucher, which is designated by V', may, ifdesired, be made of very strong paper or paper and cloth to receive themany papers of a large account. This type of voucher forms a very strongfiling-envelop, which may be filled with papers and afterward have theflap y fastened to the body of the voucher in some suitable manner, asby means of a tape or string 15, secured to the voucher at some suitablepoint and tied, as indicated at l5.

The vouchers hereinbefore described open at the long sides thereof; butin many cases it may be found preferable to make use of envelop vouchersor liles which open at the end, as shown, for eXample,in Fig. 5,in whichI have illustrated a voucher V,the fold-line of which is shown at l0 andis transverse to the long side of the voucher. Here the connectedportion p, which is attached to the main sheet of the voucher and formstherewith a pocket, is shaped in a dierent manner from the correspondingportions of the vouchers shown in Figs. l to 4, inclusive; but itcoperates with the voucher-sheet and with a receipt (notshown) insubstantially the same Way. Here the iiapf need not extend the fulllength of the pocket of the voucher, but is preferably considerablyshorter and is narrowed at its end in such a manner as to permit it tobe passed through'a slit 16 in the part 29, and thus close the file. Theplacing of the printed matter of the voucher formula is analogous inthis modification to the positionings shown in the other views.

Whatever may be the form of my improved voucher, it constitutes in allcases a receptacle in which all of the papers may be kept, and as thevouchers when folded and filled with papers will all be of uniform sizeit will be evident that they can be filed away in the ordinary manner infiling-cabinets for reference, the uniform manner in which they arebacked with the voucher formula facilitating this.

I am aware that envelops and files of various shapes and sizes haveprinted thereon various formulae for many purposes and that some ofthese when so printed form combination articles of each of which apocket is an important element; but I am not aware that any of thearticles so formed is intended for or is capable of use as a voucher,and my invention is limited strictly to ythe one lspecific article knownas a voucher and used especially by bookkeepers as a means forclassifying under the appropriate headings the vag rious accounts towhich the expenses and other disbursements'of a business-house areproperly chargeable, the essential dierence between my envelop-voucherand vouchers of the ordinary type being that the envelopvoucher isespecially adapted for holding the bills containing tlieitems making upthe totals of the account or accounts indicated on the voucher to whichsuch items are chargeable.

What I claim isl. An envelop-voucher adapted to contain a plurality ofbills or statements of account, and comprising two parts one of which isa voucher proper having a column of accountclassifying headingsindicating expense items of different naturesto which headings the itemsof said bills or statements are chargeable, and the other of which is aconnected portion forming with said voucher an envelop or pocket.

2. The combination with a combined voucher and receipt the voucherportion of which has a column of account-classifying headings indicatingexpense items 'of dierent natures, of a connected portion formingtherewith an envelop or pocket, said connected elements constituting anenvelopvoucher.

3. The combination with a combined voucher and receipt having afold-line at one edge of the receipt and the voucher portion of whichhas a column of account-classifying headings indicating expense items ofdierent natures, of a connected portion at the other side of saidfold-line and forming with the combined voucher and receipt an envelopor pocket, said connected elements constituting an envelop-voucher. A

it. The combination with a combined IIO voucher and receipt having thevoucher and said connected elements constituting an enlo the receipt atopposite sides thereof and also velop-voucher. having a fold-line at oneedge of the receipt, Signed at New York, in the county of New saidvoucher portion having a column of ac. York and State of New York, this30th day 5 couutclassifying headings indicating exof April, A. D. 1901.

pense items of dierent natures, of a con- HOMER WISE. nected portionlocated at the other side of Witnesses; said fold-line and formingwiththe combined ALBERT H. WALKER,

voucher and receipt an envelop orpocket, l A. C. J OPLING.

